Lesson plan for ESL class

I am ESL instructor. I teach low beginning level. My students are Hispanics from Central America. Most of them completed only Middle school in their home countries and there are few who never attended school. Teaching those students is a real challenge.

I would like to share my lesson plan with you.

Lesson objective: Introduce and practice prepositions of place: in, on, in front of, behind, beside, above, under, between.

Materials: a box, classroom objects, notebooks, pencils, a white board.

Duration: 40 minutes.

Warm-up and review:

Review classroom objects vocabulary by holding up or pointing to different items and asking: What's this? (a pencil, an eraser, etc).

Presentation:

Write on the board: Prepositions of place.

Say: Today, we are going to learn prepositions of place.

Explain the meaning of the word preposition of place. Say: A preposition of place is a word that is used to define where something is.

Demonstrate the use of prepositions of place by placing a pencil on ,in, in front of the box, etc.

Ask: Where is the pencil? Say: The pencil is on the box. The word on is the preposition of place. Write this word on the board. Ask students to repeat this word.

Then, introduce the other prepositions of place using the same teaching method.

Practice I:

Draw a house on the board. Draw a cat on the roof. Ask: Where is the cat? Elicit a correct answer from the class (on the roof).

Then draw other objects such as: two trees, a flower, a cloud, a car a ball, a man. Use the same teaching method to practice prepositions of place.

Practice II:

Draw a chart on the board. The chart has two columns: Question with where and Location.

Ask the students to walk around the room and complete the chart. Model the task. After they are done with the task, ask each student to get a partner. The students talk about their charts with their partners.

Listen to their conversions and correct any errors.

Application:

Say: Now we are going to play prepositions of place game. Follow my instructions.

Say the following commands: Stand behind your chair. Stand in front of your chair. Stand beside your chair. Look under your notebook. Put your hand in your pocket. Draw a circle above your head. Put a pencil in your shoe. Hold a pencil between your legs. Make sure the students follow your instructions.

Then, ask individual students to stand in front of the class and come up with their own commands.

I already taught this lesson and the students loved it. It incorporates learning and fun.